It isn’t too soon to start planning some fixes to our system here in the United States.
Here are some possible things. Some may require constitutional amendments.
- Money out of politics. Get rid of Citizens United. Require public disclosure of the sources and amounts of all political contributions.
- Term limits for congress and the supreme court
- The president cannot refuse to spend money allocated by congress
- The president cannot fire independent agency administrators
- The president cannot declare that something is an insurrection without congress.
- The president cannot deploy the national guard for longer than 2 weeks without congressional approval.
- The president should be subject to civil and criminal prosecution for actions taken while in office.
- The supreme court shadow docket ruling must be confirmed by actual hearings
- We need to do something about gerrymandering, although I don’t know what.
- The senate should be able to withdraw consent for any senate approved officer.
- We should have question time, as they do in England, where once a week or month the President answers questions from congress. Publicly.
- The president cannot fire civil servants without due process and job related reasons.
- Laws should have sunsets. Congress should have to reenact anything older than 20 years.
- Repealing laws should have a lower requirement than creating new ones.
- Get rid of civil forfeiture.
- Make it easier to sue law enforcement for violations of rights.
- No masked law enforcement gangs
- Dial back the ability of the president to start wars.
What else?